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Gene Therapy Helps Boys With ‘Lorenzo’s Oil’ Disease | Health … – U.S. News & World Report

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2017-10-04 NEWS

U.S. News & World Report

Gene Therapy Helps Boys With ‘Lorenzo’s Oil’ Disease | Health …
U.S. News & World Report
The fledgling field of gene therapy has scored another win: An experimental treatment seemed to help boys with the inherited nerve disease featured in the …

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Science Daily

Dentists get cracking on the stem cell front
Science Daily
Stem cells. Few research discoveries hold as much promise of single-handedly expanding medical treatment options as they do. Miraculously able to act as transformers—either re-creating or morphing into a variety of cell types found within the

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Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T cell Immunotherapy– Competitive Landscape, Technology and Pipeline Analysis …
PR Newswire (press release)
LONDON, Oct. 4, 2017 /PRNewswire/ — DelveInsight’s, “Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T cell Immunotherapy– Competitive Landscape, Pipeline and Market Analysis, 2017″, report provides comprehensive insights about marketed and pipeline drugs …

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Gene therapy helps boys with “Lorenzo’s Oil” disease
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Brian was able to benefit from an experimental treatment while the disease had progressed too far in Brandon to qualify for the gene therapy study. Study results were published Wednesday, Oct. 4 by the New England Journal of Medicine and discussed at

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Gene therapy helps boys with ‘Lorenzo’s Oil’ disease
SFGate
The fledgling field of gene therapy has scored another win: An experimental treatment seemed to help boys with the inherited nerve disease featured in the movie “Lorenzo’s Oil.” Fifteen of the 17 boys treated in a study had no major disability two
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Gene therapy halts progression of cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy in clinical trial
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In a recent clinical trial, a gene therapy to treat cerebral adrenoleukodystrophy (CALD) — a neurodegenerative disease that typically claims young boys’ lives within 10 years of diagnosis — effectively stabilized the disease’s progression in 88

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CRISPR-Gold Fixes Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy Mutation in Mice
Bioscience Technology
CRISPR–Gold is composed of 15 nanometer gold nanoparticles that are conjugated to thiol-modified oligonucleotides (DNA-Thiol), which are hybridized with single-stranded donor DNA and subsequently complexed with Cas9 and encapsulated by a polymer …